Thank you to everyone helping us in this journey!

Without your donations, we wouldn’t be able to keep spreading those smiles.

How we began our mission...

December 14, 2011 changed our lives forever as our 18 month old son was diagnosed with brain
cancer.

As we spent the Christmas holiday in the hospital numerous gifts were brought to cheer him up.
One gift in particular, a Build-a-Bear donated by two sisters that had lost a sibling to cancer
years before, made us take action. We promised ourselves that if we ever were lucky enough to
leave that grey hospital room with our son that we would give back to those families and
children that found themselves in the hospital at Christmas, just as we had.

Thus, Bennett's Bears was born. Donating Build-a-Bears to children at the hospital who are
unable to be home during the holiday season has changed our life. It gives the children
something to hold on to and gives the parents a smile on their child's face, a gift ever parents
wants to see.